I think Mick Jones was onto something here ..
OK, get out your lighters and your acid wash jeans; this one's going back a little bit. And turn down the Miami Vice, there's a point to all this! :)
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
I gotta take a little time, a little time to think things over
I better read between the lines, in case I need it when I'm older
Now this mountain I must climb, feels like the world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine, it keeps me warm as life grows colder
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lonely life
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time, a little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide, it looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lonely life
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
(And I wanna feel) I want to feel what love is
(And I know) I know you can show me
Let's talk about love - I want to know what love is
The love that you feel inside - I want you to show me
And I'm feeling so much love - I want to feel what love is
No, you just can't hide - I know you can show me
I want to know what love is (let's talk about love), I know you can show me
I wanna feel it too - I want to feel what love is
I wanna feel it too, and I know and I know - I know you can show me
Show me love is real, yeah - I want to know what love is...
Alright! What a totally rocking jam! Dude, my Atari just died. I need to upgrade from 16K of RAM to 32K. That's all I'll ever need. Someone get me a soda in a pull-top can and my Member's Only jacket ..
So, setting aside the obvious reference to eros love, I think Mick was onto something here.
What is love? I want to know.
What is love to you? How do you define it? What does it look like?
Is it a feeling? Is it something intangible?
Is it different from person to person?
God is love, sure, so are we trying to defining something as indelible and enigmatic as God?
Dale
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
I gotta take a little time, a little time to think things over
I better read between the lines, in case I need it when I'm older
Now this mountain I must climb, feels like the world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine, it keeps me warm as life grows colder
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lonely life
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time, a little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide, it looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lonely life
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me
I want to know what love is, I want you to show me
(And I wanna feel) I want to feel what love is
(And I know) I know you can show me
Let's talk about love - I want to know what love is
The love that you feel inside - I want you to show me
And I'm feeling so much love - I want to feel what love is
No, you just can't hide - I know you can show me
I want to know what love is (let's talk about love), I know you can show me
I wanna feel it too - I want to feel what love is
I wanna feel it too, and I know and I know - I know you can show me
Show me love is real, yeah - I want to know what love is...
Alright! What a totally rocking jam! Dude, my Atari just died. I need to upgrade from 16K of RAM to 32K. That's all I'll ever need. Someone get me a soda in a pull-top can and my Member's Only jacket ..
So, setting aside the obvious reference to eros love, I think Mick was onto something here.
What is love? I want to know.
What is love to you? How do you define it? What does it look like?
Is it a feeling? Is it something intangible?
Is it different from person to person?
God is love, sure, so are we trying to defining something as indelible and enigmatic as God?
Dale
posted by Wealthedge at 2:14 PM
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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:15-18
That pretty much says is all for me. I'd lay my life down for those I truly love. My wife and son are at the top of that list.
The problem is that the list isn't as long as it should be. Friends, family, people I know...they all make the grade. I know I have their back.
It's the guy with the Will Work For Food sign that I pass by with a car load of groceries that I struggle with.
Even when I've stopped to hand him money or some food, I'm not sure if I did it out of love or because it made me feel less guilty.
Love equals sacrifice. It's more tangible than we realize. It's Christ.
I think true love has to be completely without agenda of any sort. No holds barred, nothing it it for me or anyone else, except perhaps, that love returned. That is really the only reason God loves us, isn't it? So that we can love him?
Love is sacrifice.
Love needs to be shared.
I like it .. anything else?
Any other perspectives?
When I was very young my parents taught me that when you love someone you will do whatever it takes to make them happy. I grew to understand that if this was how I felt about someone, then I truly loved them. My parents, my siblings, my wife, my children, my close friends.
But I think Laurence makes a great point about those outside our circle of relationships. From the homeless addict looking for handouts to my next door neighbor to my fellow church member, I'm really not looking at them and thinking, "If I could just know what would make them happy, I would do everything I could to make it happen."
Sure, happiness is a shallow word, and I guess it would be better to use the term 'abundant life', but you get the point. I think sacrifice is very key. But then I have to wonder about Hosea 6:6, when God says, "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings."
Mercy is often translated as "love". So maybe we throw mercy into the mix, along with scarifice and sharing?
Yes .. I like it ..
From Michelle Thornbrough on Keith Baldwin's blog:
Funny to me that Dale's blog, Michael's blog and this one all become intertwined. Think about this statement:
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements, and lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, and irredeemable. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
C.S. Lewis – The Four Loves / Chapter 6
Transparency and love require that you have no agenda. They require that you might get hurt, they require that you can concede if someone doesn't see things the same way as you do. They put the other person before you, because you are being honest before them, vulnerable before them, that they may be more than you. You don't have to hide, you may get hurt, they may not agree with you, but you love and are honest with them so that they may have all that you are, all that you have to give.
Let me clarify that I got the CS Lewis quote from Michael's blog.
Just as 1 John says let our actions be our love, if we decide we can't love because we don't agree, then we are the ones that lose. It doesn't matter what you say, if your actions don't match. Emerson said "What you are shouts so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
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